Tubular lante



(No Model.)

P. DIETZ.

TUBULAR LANTERN. No. 395,489. Patented Jan. 1, 18 89..

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FREDERICK DTETZ, ()l NIUV YORK, Y., ArsFililNUlt TO THE R. E. DIETZ COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE, AND THE S'lEAM GJJUGE AND LANTERN COMPANY, OF tOCl'lES'lER, NEXV YORK.

TUBULAR LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,489, dated. January 1, 1889.

Application filed February 2, 1888. Serial No. 262,706. (No model.)

To (6 20710112, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK Dunn, of

the city oi. New York, in the county and State which the following is a specification.

for the fresh air and an outlet for the pro 10 ducts of combustion at or in the vicinity of the top of the globe, and has for its principal object to provide a guard which protects this o iening at the top of the globe against the ingress of water and against heavy winds, 5

thereby relulering the lantern suitable For use by firemen, where the lantern is liable to be struck by a stream of water, and on vessols, bridges, and other localities exposed to heavy winds.

Another object of my invention is to produce a rigid guard in a simple and substaniial manner.

My invention consists, to these ends, of the improvements which will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a tubular lantern provided with my improved guard. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the guard at right angles to Fig. 1, showing the lantern in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the guard.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A represents the base of the ti'lbular lantern, containing the oil-1nd, burner, and airchamber. l5 l3 represent the side tubes;

with longitudinal stiffening-ribs c when the lantern is designed for the use of firemen or for other uses in which the tubes are liable to receive blows.

The movable guard which is applied to the 3 side tubes consists of two upright side pieces,

This invention relates to that class oi. tubular lanterns which are provided with an inlet l upright wires 71, and a top shield, I.

G G, which rest against the backs or outer sides of the side tubes, horizontal wires 9 g,

The lat ter is composed of bands of tin or other suit able metal attached to the upper portions of the uprights G G, and arranged to stand op posite the space between the globe and bell,

so as to protect said space. When the lantern is used by firemen and struck by a stream 01; water, the shield I of the guard prevents the stream from entering the globe at the top 6 5 thereof and extinguishing the flame. hen the lantern is exposed to strong blasts of wind as, for instance, on vessels, bridges,

piers, or other exposed localities-the shield I prevents an excessive injection of fresh air to the tubes and avoids the cutting down of the flame and reduction of illuminating-powerresulting from an excessive supply of air to the flame.

The uprights G G oi the guard are pg'eferably 7 5 composed of strips of tin bent to a U or channel shape and arranged with their open sides toward the tubes, whereby very strong and rigid uprights are secured. Each of the horizontal guard-wires g g is composed. of two parts, the ends of which are inserted through holes in the sides of the u iirights and clinched j on the inner sides of the latter, as represented the globe, 1), the hell or flaring month of the air-tubes, and E the central. tube connecting the bell with the top portions of the side 4o tubes.

The bell is arrangcal at a short distance above the top of the globe, so as to leave an annular-spacebetween the bell and the globe,

, right wires 12-.

in, Fig. 2. The bent ends of these wires are further secured to the uprights by soldering. 1 The horizontal guard-wires g g are preferably connected between the uprights G G by up- The guard is very strong, simple in construction, and canbe readily applied to or removed from the lantern, as circumthrough which fresh ai renters on the weather 1 side and the products of combustion escape l stances may require.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, a with a tubular lantern, of a removable guard resting on the tubes and surrounding the body of the globe, and provided at its upper end with an anuu lar shield which surrounds and protects the air-passages in the lantern-top, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the channelshaped uprights G G, adapted to rest on the tubes, of the horizontal guardvires g g, secured to the lower portions of the uprights and connecting the same, and the annular shield I, secured to the upper portions of the uprights, substantially as set forth. 1o

Witness my hand this 30th day of January, 1888.

FREDERICK DIETZ. \Vitnesses:

JOHN E. DIETZ, W. H. DE HART. 

